Hirotugu Akaike

was a Japanese statistician. (As of April 2016, the paper had received about 17000 citations. )

Nowadays, AIC has become common enough that it is often used without citing Akaike's 1974 paper. Indeed, there are over 170,000 scholarly articles/books that use AIC (as assessed by Google Scholar).

Life and career Hirotugu Akaike was born to a silkworm farmer in Fujinomiya City; he was the youngest of four brothers. In 1957, he married Ayako, with whom he afterward had three daughters; Ayako died (of subarachnoid haemorrhage) in 1983. He then became a researcher at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. From 1994 until his death, he was an emeritus professor at both the institute and the Graduate University. Additionally, he served as a Member of the Science Council of Japan. His obituary in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society describes him as being "a most gentle person of great intellect, integrity and generosity". In 1996, he was the recipient of the first Japan Statistical Society Prize.

Akaike was a Fellow at several scientific associations: American Statistical Association, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Royal Statistical Society, and others.

On 5 November 2017, Google Doodle commemorated his 90th birthday.

Interviews . . "Message from Hirotugu Akaike - The 2006 Kyoto Prize Winner" —YouTube video, recorded on November 11, 2006.

Publications Articles A list of Akaike's research articles (and similar publications) is available on the Hirotugu Akaike Memorial Website, at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. The list comprises 119 English articles and 52 Japanese articles. What follows here is a selection of English articles. (Many articles in what follows are also in the book Selected Papers of Hirotugu Akaike. ) . . republished in . . . . . . . . . . . Akaike, H. (1980). "Likelihood and the Bayes procedure (with discussion)". J. M. Bernardo, M. H. DeGroot, D. V. Lindley, and A. F. M. Smith (eds.) Bayesian Statistics, 143–203. Valencia, Spain: University Press. . Akaike, H. (1981). "Modern development of statistical methods". P. Eykhoff (ed.) Trends and Progress in System Identification, 169–184. Pergamon Press. Akaike, H. (1983). "Statistical inference and measurement of entropy". G. E. P. Box, T. Leonard, and C.-F. Wu (eds.) Scientific Inference, Data Analysis, and Robustness, 165–189. Academic Press. Akaike, H. (1983). "Information measures and model selection". Proceedings of the 44th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, 277–291. . Akaike, H. (1985). "Prediction and entropy". A. C. Atkinson, and S. E. Fienberg (eds.) A Celebration of Statistics, 1–24. Springer. . .

Books The following list is adapted from a list on the Hirotugu Akaike Memorial Website, at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. Akaike Information Criterion AIC - Modeling / Prediction / Knowledge-Discovery (written in Japanese) Co-authored with S. Amari, G. Kitagawa, S. Abashima, and H. Simodaira, and with K. Murota and T.i Tsuchiya (Eds.), Tokyo: Kyoritsu Shuppan (2007). The Practice of Time Series Analysis H. Akaike and G. Kitagawa (Eds.), Springer-Verlag (1999). Practice of Time Series Analysis II (written in Japanese) H. Akaike and G. Kitagawa (Eds.), Asakura Publishing Co. (1995). Time Series Theory (written in Japanese) coauthored with T. Ozaki, The Society for the Promotion of The University of the Air (1988). Statistical Analysis and Control of Dynamic Systems (translation of 1972 book) coauthored with T. Nakagawa, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1988). Statistics in Science (written in Japanese)coauthored with T. Matsuda, M. Oda, K. Nomoto, E. Matsunaga Kodansha Ltd. (1987). Statistical Special Theory (written in Japanese) coauthored with C. Hayashi and T. Suzuki, The Society for the Promotion of The University of the Air (1986). Probability and Statistics (written in Japanese)coauthored with C. Hayashi, The Society for the Promotion of The University of the Air (1985). Statistical Analysis and Control of Dynamic Systems (written in Japanese)coauthored with T. Nakagawa, Science Co. (1972). Idea Concerning Public Opinion (written in Japanese)coauthored with M. Royama, New Japan Educational Association (1955). Contemporary Society and Mass Communication (written in Japanese)Mass Communication Course Vol.5 (coauthored with R. Hidaka), Kawade Shobo Publishers (1955).